JohnnyS

Hey Steve, I was thinking maybe you would consider having someone do a beta run of your robots? If so I am very interested. John

Robots for rent... that sounds like an iteresting idea but I hope to be nearly through with my project by then. If things change I will keep you in mind though. Thanks for the help, John

Thanks all, for the warm welcome. I have pretty much decided on the Squeezebox Duet as my streaming device. The price is right and the features I want are there. Since the Squeezebox supports flac, I will likely use that file format. As far as the actual storage of the files I have an IOMEGA 4TB NAS on my network I intend to use. Steve, Thanks for the ripping advice. I will look into the software you mention. Could you please describe how the "BatchRipper" module you mentioned would make the process easier? I know I can setup WMP to rip discs automatically when they are inserted and to eject them when they are finished ripping but this does not seem like much of a savings in work/time. Is this the type of automation you are saying the BatchRipper software is capable of? I appreciate that this is going to be a big, time consuming and tedious job and that it would indeed be easier to send the discs off and let somebody else do the drudge work. I even considered this option early on. After giving the idea some careful thought though, I decided to just do it myself and save some cash. That is not really the whole story. While saving cash is important to me, it was not the main reason I decided against using a service. The main reasons were: A) Even though it will be a pain, there is something about doing it myself that appeals to me. If I do it myself I have the final control over the quality. Not some stranger (no offense). And finally (and this was the biggy). C) I can not imagine packing up my discs and shipping them across country. I have seen too many packages destroyed by this. My reasons for doing this project have nothing to do with ridding myself of the discs. Even once the project is done I will still keep and (proudly) display my collection. The reason for doing this is just for the convenience of use that a media server/player will offer. Thanks again to all for the welcome and advice. John

Hi all, what a great forum, I am a long time Klipsch owner and I did not even know this forum existed until now. I appologize for dragging up an old thread but I just found it (and the forum) while searching for information on how to get my CD collection converted to computer files so I can setup a media server/player for my home theater. I also do not want to hijack the OPs thread but he did say he would provide help/insight to those wanting to do it on their own. [] I am hoping to get some pointers on doing it. Specificaly I need some advice on the hardware and software and process I should use to achieve the best results. I have around 1800 CDs and am not really looking forward to the idea of spending countless hours feeding discs into my PC so I want to make sure I do it right the first time. In researching for this project I have read that EAC (Exact Audio Copy) is a good choice for software. Supposedly it is somehow able to fix scratched CDs so there are no skips in the resulting computer files. Also I have read that some CD drives are better than others when it comes to extracting audio. I was hoping that somebody here could suggest a make and model. Lastly, my collection has many classical CDs and I am told that to get the most from a media server/player setup tagging will be very important and that the automatic tagging done by most software is spotty at best. I can not imagine entering song titles, performer, composer and such for each track manually for 1800 CDs. Surely there are automated solutions available that at least lessen the manual effort. John